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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • You know there’s a bit of irony here, b/c I’ve had essentially both of these conversations with my parents, meaning, they strongly opposed ending the embargo if you bring it up, but simultaneously not realize there was an embargo.

    They’d say things like, “Why won’t the Cuban government allow the imports of things they need? Why won’t the Cuban government allow American tourists?” and then I’d tell them that’s not Cuba, that’s the US.

    But they support an embargo while not really seeming to know what it’s doing and probably because they’re boomers so communism = evil and therefore if there’s bad thing for Cuba, then they support that.

    The conversations get really strange really fast. My parents tend to get very ideological and often contradict themselves within a 5 minute span and I’m just staring at them like, really?



  • I’ve been using it for forever and also used it for DnD, based off of…what’s his name, one of the bigger DM guys on YT. It works great.

    I’m using Obsidian for work since cloud note apps are blocked and I don’t like it as much. It works, but I’m not as wild about it.

    One issue I recently had with one note is that I wanted to export a section to share on the web and wasn’t able to do it and the web interface doesn’t really let me do the management that I need. My work machine is my main one right now, so I’m stuck with what I’ve got. That all being said, aside from privacy, there isn’t really a direct reason to change.

    But I’m not super wild that MS is reading my notes since I’ve also used it as a diary at points. I’ll have to figure that bit out later.




  • Women are the tale it is the only way of the warrior

    edit: it did the same for men, so I’ll choose different options:

    Women are going to be able to get it to you tomorrow morning to pick up the kids litter box and I will be there in about the Venezuelan election.

    Men are the best way to get rid of the amount of time I snuck in the house today when you have a chance please let me know what you think I’ll be going to the hospital and they are such wonderful people


  • I just read the 25 pages and they used a lot of hard data from China’s own databases, though the data is very limited access and particularly opaque even when compared to other regions according to the report, and it looks pretty compelling.

    Edit: I’ll add that I’m changing my mind about it. I used to believe it, then I started to distrust it, but now I guess I’m coming back to it. What’s pretty wild is I’ve watched videos of people going to Xinjiang and it looks totally normal. Mosques everywhere, arabic text, people smiling, etc. Then on top of that it’s pretty clear that western capital wants to reduce China’s gains, so of course we’re happy at these reports.

    But the quickest way to clear it up would be for China to let the UN come and look and interview people, but they aren’t. I do recognize that UN investigations tend to come with US spies, but I don’t really see what’s over there to hide, anyway.